cecil daisy’s pits

Cecil Daisy is Underworld’s super nerd character. Optimistic, though easily crushed, Cecil is quick to accept other’s perceptions of him and turn them into assets. I love drawing him and knowing that I can beat the crap out of him and he will still come up smelling like a daisy. In this comic he does not smell like a daisy though — but turns his pit stink into a positive (if only in his own deluded pointy head). Sharp readers will notice that the drawings in panels two and three were reused from a previous Cecil Daily comic strip. I was reading Simon Louvish’s 2005 book on Laurel and Hardy, STAN AND OLLIE (Thomas Dunne Books) where he pointed out the many gags that Laurel and Hardy reused over the years. I didn’t want to completely reuse a gag but I thought I might rework a published set up with a new follow through and punch line. An exercise in “how can I take this gag and make it funnier?” I do it most often with my JOEY comics – but the idea there is to keep all the drawings and just change the dialogue (like David Lynch’s old comic strip The World’s Angriest Dog).

Like this:

Jokes like this have been made about blood sucking before. Sergio Aragones in Mad had a great strip back in the 70’s about a vampire sucking a hippy’s blood and tripping. And the FX TV show version of What We Do in the Shadows did this idea three weeks ago. My version is more deadly

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Kaz grew up a working class brat who loved cartoons, monsters, punk rock and fine arts. He studied cartooning at NYC’s School of Visual Arts under art spiegelman and Harvey Kurtzman. In 1991 he created the Harvey-nominated strip Underworld which continues to be published in alternative weekly papers across the United States. Since 2001 he has written for Spongebob Squarepants, Cartoon Network’s Camp Lazlo and Disney’s Phineas & Ferb.